I have the best colleagues! Thank you everyone for the overwhelming support and congratulations ❤️

I was elected yesterday to the US National Academy of Sciences! I feel so honored and grateful! I’m heading to the SAAs right now and I can’t wait to celebrate!

The Adventures in Archaeological Science coloring book is now available in Kyrgyz / Кыргыз. A big thank you to Saltanat Alisher kyzy for making the coloring book available in Kyrgzy! christinawarinner.com/2026/03/27/a...

Check out our new article in Current Anthropology on the changing landscape of archaeological publishing! www.doi.org/10.1086/739789

Congratulations to Akari for completing her postdoc on traditional dairying in Mongolia in the FSU Microverse Cluster at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology and starting a new professorship at Okayama University!

New video of talk by @christinawarinner.bsky.social given at Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny posted by @ucsandiego.bsky.social explaining how advances in #aDNA and #proteomics can investigate the complex and diverse microbial communities from dental calculus

New 2-year Postdoc: Ancient #Metagenomics & #Microbiome Sciences! 🧬🦷 Join Prof. @christinawarinner.bsky.social ’s group at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social to study the evolution and ecology of ancient oral microbiota. 📅 Apply by Jan 20, 2026: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/career/jo...

Important Announcement: EAA Special Meeting The European Archaeological Association will hold a Special Meeting to discuss the organisation’s governance and future direction. - 🗓 Friday, 9 Jan 2026 - ⏰ 14:00–17:00 CET Online voting will take place on 16–31 Jan 2026 www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...

Check out our new ancient DNA article on the deep time evolution of antimicrobial peptides in the oral microbiome! Learn more about actifensins and test out our new software tool, AMPcombi! A big congratulations especially to Anan and Rosa for all their hard work on this! doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

What an inspiring CARTA Symposium on “Ancient DNA: New Revelations”! Thank you so much to the whole CARTA organizational team for making it possible!

So proud to be among the speakers addressing “What it means to be human” at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology symposium!

We're so excited to share our newest ancient DNA findings on hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in Kazakhstan! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So excited to learn about the work Henny Piezonka is doing on reindeer!

We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

Having the best time at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference! From kimchi to koji to sauerkraut, this was the tastiest conference I’ve ever attended! A big thank you to the Sonnenburg lab for organizing, and it was so great to see Rob Dunn and Rachel Dutton again!

And that’s a wrap! Congratulations to the entire ISBA community for a successful ISBA11!

Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!

The Warinner Group and collaborators having fun at ISBA11 in Torino, Italy!

We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Ancient Yersinia pestis genome discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds new light on a mysterious infectious disease that plagued prehistoric Eurasia. New research by @keyfm.bsky.social and @i-light-maka.bsky.social now published in @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

New article in the Harvard Gazette about how we’re persevering despite funding cuts news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I'll be presenting our research on ancient food fermentations at the upcoming Stanford Fermented Food Conference on September 4-5, 2025. Join us to learn more about our recent findings on Roman wine and ancient Himalayan beer! There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...

Warinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon recently presented her summer research that builds foundational knowledge for the use of protein mass spectrometry to understand human respiratory diseases and immune response before the antibiotic era. Congratulations Juliet!

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Postdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! Congratulations, James! We couldn’t be more proud!

Want to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens of metagenomics and paleogenomics”!

It's not every day you get to see the summer solstice sunset at a 7,000-year-old woodhenge! Yay for the Sonnenobservatorium in Goseck!

Just finished our summer retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology HKI. We had so much fun charting the future of ancient microbial genomes with the aim of developing better antimicrobial therapies for the future.

Our official photo from the Nobel Symposium - what a blast! It was so incredible to learn about all the amazing paleogenomics research happening right now!

It was so nice spending time with my colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at our annual retreat at Ringberg Castle! What a treat!

A great news article in Science this week by Taylor Brown on the devastating effects of funding cuts by DOGE and the Trump Administration on American archaeology. www.science.org/content/arti...

Dental calculus is such a treasure trove! www.science.org/content/arti...

Grateful that the Max Planck Society is stepping up to support talented researchers whose careers have been derailed in the US www.reuters.com/world/us/max...

We got to see the Linnean type specimens!!!

It’s been a great Nobel Symposium!

It is so fun to get to hang out with the newest member of the National Academy Sciences!

Die US-Regierung will der Harvard Universität verbieten, weiterhin ausländische Studierende aufzunehmen. Was das für das wiss. Arbeiten dort bedeuten würde, darüber habe ich im Dlf mit @christinawarinner.bsky.social gesprochen, Anthropologie-Prof. in Harvard: www.deutschlandfunk.de/harvard-univ...

On my way to meet the Nobel Committee. My government may not value my research but I’m glad others do

Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Now this www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Well I just lost all my NSF grants

I learned today that the NSF SBE conference I’m co-organizing in DC in eleven days has been cancelled. This seems to be related to he return of DOGE at the NSF: www.science.org/content/arti...

It was a pleasure to attend the first #APG2025 symposium at UNAM Juriquilla and to listen to great keynote lectures given by @christinawarinner.bsky.social and @scs22.bsky.social. A big thanks to @dbm003.bsky.social and @paleogenomics.bsky.social and their organizing committee 👏.

Hundred thousand strong turnout in Boston yesterday. Standing up for federal workers, universities, and international students

Congratulations to Melina Seabrook for successfully defending her PhD today!

Standing up for Science in the Warinner Lab!

Eating, pooping and drinking: archeological goldmines for paleogenomics, the topic of @christinawarinner.bsky.social #AGBTGM talk. Zooming into calcified layers of dental plaque for genomic sampling of the oral microbiomes of ancient humans.